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Hit Man’s Ending Isn’t As Sunny As It Seems
The film’s sunlit coda seems to say that people can change, sure, but only by getting worse.
Within the context of the movie, however, the line also underscores a recurring theme in Linklater’s filmography — the idea that an unaddressed darkness lurks around every corner in America, often hiding just beneath a folksy veneer of southern etiquette and a slice of warm pie. The pie line makes its final appearance at the very end of the film, when Gary and Madison (Adria Arjona) sit down for what looks to be an extremely early dinner, based on the obscene amount of sunshine streaming through the windows of their fancy new house. Despite the subject matter, the film somehow retains the shaggy hangout quality of the Linklater oeuvre, doubling as a journey through his childhood and a portrait of how the prison impacts people he knew growing up, from classmates who served time there to a bolo-tie-wearing civil-rights lawyer who happens to be an ex-boyfriend of his mom’s.
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